S16B



S16B

Room 2.3

Holocene populations, networks and adaptations to new environments / Populations, réseaux et adaptations à de nouveaux environnements durant l’Holocène

Session organizers: Olivier Lemercier, Albert Hafner

S16B, Tue Sep 1 2026, 9:00 - 13:30, Room 2.3

Some few words - Holocene populations, networks and adaptations to new environments: an introduction / Olivier Lemercier & Albert Hafner

9:00-9:20 - Early waterfront settlements between the Aegean and the Adriatic (6000-600 BCE). Chronologies, land use and environmental adaptation / Albert Hafner et al.

9:20-9:40 - Beyond Utility: Obsidian Exchange and Social Value in Neolithic Eastern-Central Europe / Dagmara H. Werra et al.

9:40-10:00 - Lithic Sourcing in the Archipelago. The contribution of local lithic sources in the neolithization process of Sant’Antioco island (Southwestern Sardinia) / Gian Pietro Vacca et al.

10:00-10:20 - Plant Economy of Early Neolithic Societies in Southern Poland: Continuity and Adaptation in Danubian Subsistence Strategies / Magdalena Moskal-del Hoyo et al.

10:20-10:40 - Rethinking The Kleine Gete Cluster: New Perspectives On Settlement, Subsistence, And Material Culture In The Belgian LBK / Yannick Vanhove et al.

10:40-11:00 - Archaeobotanical evidence into the Spread of Agriculture in the Northern Black Sea Region / Marta Andriiovych

11:00 – 11:30 - Coffee break

11:30-11:50 - Meat production and preservation in the Middle Neolithic: changing animal exploitation strategies after the Early Neolithic in NE Iberia / Joaquim Ripoll-Miralda et al.

11:50-12:10 - Rapid Cultural Change and shifts in 4th and 3rd millennium BCE / Albert Hafner & Mirco Brunner

12:10-12.30 - Breaking the Silence: Reassessing the “Invisible” Chalcolithic of the Middle Ebro Valley through the Lens of La Paridera de la Dehesa (Muel, Spain) / Marina Bretos Ezcurra et al.

12:30-12:50 - Food Economy in the Late Chalcolithic Southern Caucasus: Evaluating Food Production through Macrolithic Tools / Karolina Hruby et al.

12:50-13:10 - From Western Networks to the Tyrrhenian Axis: Bell Beaker Dynamics and the Emergence of the Bonnanaro Culture in Sardinia / Fabio Nieddu

13:10-13:30 - Beaker Networks and 4.2 cal BP Event in Mediterranean / Olivier Lemercier

13:30-14:30 - Lunch